Patrick Barlow went for the gusto when he decided to script a play based on the famous Alfred Hitchcock film “The 39 Steps,” which was itself taken from an earlier novel. The result is a frantic, fun, zany spoof that Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, plays fully for the many laughs the plot [...]
Good theater is the kind where you leave with your mind reeling with ideas about what you’ve just seen – thinking about it and figuring it out. That’s what you have to look forward to if you go to see New World Performance Laboratory’s “Gilgamesh: He Who Knew Everything” at the Balch Street Theatre. NWPL [...]
The Miami Theater Center (MTC) is growing. Its ever-expanding reach and impact on the vitality of the performing arts for all ages in Miami-Dade spans theater, film, training and more. From their annual contemporary
Blank Slate Theatre’s production of the off-Broadway hit, “Columbinus,” created in 2005 by the United States Theatre Project, grabs you by the throat right from the start and doesn’t let go for an uncomfortable two hours. In the tradition of “The Laramie Project,” this two-act play blends fact and fiction to dramatize the events surrounding the [...]
Written and performed by Rudi Goblen, “Pet” takes the audience by the heart and guides them through the chaotic and often confusing world of love where the end of love may lead to one’s own end—or
The Holocaust looms large in popular literature, film and theater. Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, the subject is a fully realized genre whose narrative contours are, at this point, widely familiar, thanks to writers like Anne Frank, Primo Levi, Art Spiegelman and Elie Wiesel, not to mention films like Schindler’s [...]
The O’Shaughnessy was quieter than usual before last night’s show, particularly given the size of the crowd that braved the rain to see Emily Johnson/Catalyst’s one-night-only regional premiere of “Niicugni.” The light was dim, and there were homemade lanterns suspended from the rafters above both stage and audience, but little else by way of props [...]
“Lorca in a Green Dress,” Pulitzer-winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s surreal homage to poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, opened at the Ritz Theater last weekend. The play, directed by Teatro del Pueblo’s Alberto Justiniano, marks the fourth collaborative production by the Knight Arts grantee company and Pangea World Theater. The curtain opens on 1936 Spain and [...]
Much-lauded actor John Lithgow has some strong theatrical roots in the Akron area, and he’s coming back to town to talk to his former friends and neighbors about “The Power of Storytelling.” His father, Arthur, a theatrical producer and director, directed a Shakespeare festival at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, where the present Ohio Shakespeare [...]
Giuseppe Verdi’s wildly popular, splendidly tragic and sumptuously opulent “La Traviata” closes Florida Grand Opera’s 72nd season with performances scheduled at the Arsht Center and
